NVIDIA has announced its intention to acquire Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion as part of an effort to create a juggernaut that will build processors optimized for artificial intelligence (AI) applications that span edge computing deployment to the cloud. Under the terms of the proposed deal, Arm will operate as a subsidiary of NVIDIA […]
Making the Move to Edge Computing? Consider This
Edge computing has exciting potential, but there are certain considerations to thrive in today’s competitive landscape Data is king, especially in the current era of the data-driven business, where a data mindset and analytical capabilities are significant factors in determining future success. With so much data to be mined and monetized, more companies are recognizing […]
Fastly Facilitates Observability at the Edge
Fastly this week announced it is adding the ability to collect tracing, customizable logging data and both real-time and historical metrics from a serverless computing framework designed to be deployed on edge computing platforms. Company CTO Tyler McMullen said the goal is to make it easier for IT to bring observability within the context of […]
JFrog Extends Reach and Scope of CI/CD Platform
At its online JFrog swampUP Conference today, JFrog announced it has extended the reach of its ability to distribute software to include options based on peer-to-peer and content delivery network (CDN) mechanisms. In addition, JFrog expanded the reach of the JFrog Pipelines continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, enabling DevOps teams to build their own library […]
Why the Success of Edge Computing Relies on a Linux Legacy
At this point you’ve certainly heard rumblings of the promises of edge computing and may wonder if it’s right for your organization and how to assess its viability. The way we think about edge is as a decentralized extension, or evolution, of cloud computing, enabling many of the same technologies and applications to be leveraged […]
How FaaS Is Disrupting Workflows: New CSP vs. CDN Services
Function as a Service (FaaS), the popular incarnation of serverless computing, along with containers, has played an important role in the migration from monolithic application architectures to those based on microservices. Its introduction has changed the way developers think about infrastructure and application development. While at the same time, it has also driven evolution in […]
Is Your Infrastructure Ready for Edge Computing?
Like many IT innovations, edge computing began with engineers as a natural extension of technology to address a growing need. The concept isn’t new; distributed computing has been around for decades. But, at the same time standards began to converge and edge hardware started making the rounds at trade shows, the hype machine saw an […]
Chef Adds Support for Arm Graviton 2 Processors on AWS Cloud
Chef announced this week that its offerings for managing and testing infrastructure as code now support Graviton 2 processors from Arm on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. AWS this week announced the availability of an M6g instance of processors on its public cloud. Based on a 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 architecture, the M6g processors […]
IBM Looks to Drive Edge Computing
IBM today at its Think Digital conference launched an edge computing initiative anchored around an IBM Edge Application Manager, through which a single administrator can manage up to 10,000 nodes. Hillery Hunter, vice president and CTO for IBM Cloud, said IBM Edge Application Manager is based on the Open Horizon open source software originally developed […]
AWS Adds GUI to Snow Edge Computing Family
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week announced it has added a graphical user interface (GUI) tool dubbed AWS OpsHub for Snow Family to provide an alternative to the command-line interface (CLI) tool it makes available to manage its family of Snow appliances deployed in on-premises environments. At the same time, AWS announced it is making […]